codeigniter Getting started with codeigniter Run multiple applications on one CI system
Example
Codeigniter may be configured to run more than one project without duplicating CI core files.
It's possible by splitting CI Application side. For example let's take project of website, which contains front-end and back-end Content Management System (CMS) applications.
In this case CI folder structure will be like:
Folder structure:
├── Codeigniter
│ ├── applications
│ │ ├─ front-end
│ │ │ ├── views
│ │ │ ├── models
│ │ │ ├── controllers
│ │ │ ├── config
│ │ │ └── ...
│ │ ├─ back-end
│ │ │ ├── views
│ │ │ ├── models
│ │ │ ├── controllers
│ │ │ ├── config
│ │ │ └── ...
│ │ │
│ ├── system
│ │ ├── core
│ │ ├── database
│ │ ├── helpers
│ │ └── ...
│ │
│ ├── index.php
└ └── backend.php
In applications folder we created two folders: front-end and back-end and copied all default content of applications under these two folders.
Also we duplicated index.php file under root folder as backend.php
Next is to configure CI to work with this two instances of application.
Codeigniter Configuration:
Open index.php and backend.php files and update application_folder confg:
//index.php
$application_folder = 'applications/front-end';
//backend.php
$application_folder = 'applications/back-end';
After configuration above, CI is ready to run two applications under one CI system:
Request on
example.com/Codeigniter/index.phpwill openfront-endapp
Request on
example.com/Codeigniter/backend.phpwill openback-endapp
